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Re:The Last Slave Ship Survivor Gave an Interview in the 1930s by jhbadger on Saturday May 12, 2018 @08:12AM (#17053684)
A few Christians like John Brown were abolitionists. Others, considerably more, were supporters of slavery on the grounds that the Bible seemed to have no problem with it. The whole split between Northern and Southern Baptists was a result.
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Re:The Last Slave Ship Survivor Gave an Interview in the 1930s by DataWorker on Saturday May 12, 2018 @02:55PM (#17055449)
There were no non-Christian abolitionists. The entire movement in Britain was based on religious grounds. Perhaps fundamentalist is the wrong term. Evangelical Christians like William Wilberforce and the original group of Quakers are whom I am referring.
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